Rec’d of the Rev Mr Thomas Porter… [two bank] bills, value £40… In the forenoon my late servant Mary Martin came over to assist me in the house during my servant’s absence, and she and Joseph Seaman’s wife, who bought many things in the shop, drank tea with me. My brother came over in the afternoon, and he, Thomas Durrant and my late servant drank tea with me.
At home all day and thank God very busy. My late servant stayed all night and Thomas Durrant took part of my bed. In the evening Mr Clapinson and I played a few games of cribbage; I lost 9d.
N.B.: The balance of 32.4.10 which I received this day of Mr Porter I have entered to the account relating to the executorship of Mr Piper’s children, and which I have now in hand as treasurer, to myself and the other devisees of Mr Piper deceased.
In the day read part of a modern work entitled Religio Laici; or a laymen’s thoughts on religion, which as far as I have seen is a thing seemingly well written, and with a true spirit of piety, though I cannot say it is a thing properly digested into method. It seems written in detached pieces.
Rec’d of my brother John Turner by the payment of Mr Robert Hook in cash 2.2.9 in full.